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March 8th, 2011 Posted 7:00 pm
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Hopefully as the days get longer we can anticipate the spring …
… and with the spring and summer will come a lot more bike rides
I get a lot of ride info in my inbox (ouch, that hurts!)
A couple are a spin-off from SFNR and the rest are not.
There is other ride info: at CTC and Sheffield CycleChic and loads of local route info on CycleSheffield
Bookmark to your taste
For starters below is what I’ve got for the next few months.
I’ll update this as and when so set up a feed or check out the social network of your choice every so often.
Sun 26 Feb 2012 Women only ride: (if the weather’s really awful or icy and unsafe, ride postponed to Sunday 11th March) Route: to Shirebrook Nature Reserve along the Trans Pennine Trail. It’s a lovely area of varied habitats, which I hope you enjoy as much as those of you who cycled through Wyming Brook did on our last ride. This is a half day ride and we’ll meet at Barkers Pool at 9.30am and then should be back by 1pm.
Make sure your bike is roadworthy (chains definitely need lubricating regularly if you’ve been out where there’s been grit and salt, and also if you’ve not been out for a while).
Remember to bring several layers of clothes for whatever weather we get, plus drinks. I’ll bring flapjack as usual!! There is also a nice friendly cafe stop – cheap and cheerful prices: tea 80p, coffee 90p – but maybe it’s a good idea to bring a snack as well in case.
A reminder will be sent just before the date but it would be good to know how many of you plan to come along now. Please reply to: polytone@doctors.org.uk and my phone numbers: (0114) 2721814 or 07813615309 Polly Blacker
Fri 9 March 2012 SFNR Railways 2
Fri 6 April 2012 SFNR Sheffield Olympians see item below
Fri 4 May 2012 SFNR Snooker
Mon 7 May 2012 Edward Carpenter in Sheffield Fundraising ride for Friends of Edward Carpenter. A spin-off of the SFNR in June 2011 to Millthorpe; this time we spend the morning of May Day touring the city to view locations where Carpenter lived and worked, have a picnic lunch in Paradise Square or someplace and then in the afternoon head out to Millthorpe, with speakers to tell us about Carpenter and his work at different locations. This will be a fundraiser (eg ride fee £10 pp or get sponsorship from friends/family etc) to support the establishment of a work of public art to commemorate Carpenter and his association with Sheffield and to initiate a walking/cycling Carpenter trail. Ride and route organised by yours truly with FOEC. Details to follow.
Fri May 11 2012 CTC Annual General Meeting. Evening Ride Bounded Infinity. A repeat of the SFNR Bounded Infinity of March 2011. Led by yours truly. Details to follow
Tue 5 June 2012 SFNR Golden Jubilee Ride. SFNR 50th ride on a Tuesday afternoon, get away from the other Jubilee, cycle out to the north of Sheffield and enjoy a Yorkshire high tea (£10 pp) in the superb Fire Brigades Union Dining Room at Wortley Hall the home of socialism
Fri 22 June 2012 SFNR Redmires, Stanage Pole and Stanage Edge (SFNR will be 4 yrs old)
Sun 1 July 2012 Sheffield-Esteli Society’s Two Peaks bike ride Start in Endcliffe Park and there is a choice of 20 or 50 miles, much of the long ride being on quieter roads. Fundraiser: ride fee. Routes are here Info email: sheffieldestelisociety@yahoo.co.uk
Fri 6 July SFNR Baths and Spas Presently investigating whether we can get to Hathersage Pool
STOP PRESS!
SFNR 6 April 2012 (full moon 6th Good Friday) Theme change to Sheffield Olympians
Having started some shallow research I have realised the number of people who have been born, and/or lived and/or trained in Sheffield who have taken part in Olympics is pretty large – first competitor I can find goes back to the 1908 Olympics, there’s been a few cyclists and someone who took part in Mixed Painting(!) at the 1948 Olympics. So the ride will be sites associated with people who have been born, lived or trained in Sheffield and have taken part in an Olympics Games, like where they went to school, live(d), performed, worked etc It’s Olympics year so maybe concentrate on athletes and sportsmen and women like, Jessica Ennis, Seb Coe etc but also the many from past Olympics and we may even have an Olympics mountain biker, David Baker, who competed in 1996 at Atlanta and rides with Norton Wheelers, join us.
Make it a Long Good Friday.
Inaugural Sheffield Cycle Chic Sundays™ Ride
Style over speed
Sun 19th June 2011
30 riders on the inaugural ride and many of them also nightriders; ride report on the Sheffield Cycle Chic Sunday Ride page
Mair who organises these has turned the photos into the neat montage below
Cycle Chic Sundays Sheffield June 2011 from sheffieldcyclechic on Vimeo.
Sheffield FridayNightRide has a short piece in the June/July 2011 issue of Cycle, the CTC magazine. It’s at the back in Travellers’ Tales and its a report on our Bounded Infinity Ride. I entitled it “Night Riding an infinite ride in a finite area is a pleasure” – trips off the tongue eh? The editor turned that into Urban Night Riding – rivetting, eh? My draft is in the ride report.
Sheffield FridayNightRide in the coolest cycling journal in the world, The Ride
I submitted a short article to The Ride last year; many of you contributed by sending in reflective comments about Sheffield FridayNightRide
It has been published in issue 5. Sorry can’t wet your appetite with the issue 5 cover as can’t get the html code right!
The Ride has contributions from cyclists from all over the world, telling their stories about their rides – and we’re in it.
The SFNR article is enhanced by a superb piece of artwork, artists queue up to illustrate articles and we have been done proud by Liam Stevens.
To get your own copy of issue 5 then pedal along to ReCycleBikes, top of Thirlwell Rd, S8 9TF (0114 250 7717) weekdays between 9 and 5
Price £7 (sorry no plastic)
The Ride (www.theridejournal.com) is visually sumptuous, literally stimulating and at over 178 pp the size of a book – and only 20 pp of ads; the rest is cool stuff about all kinds of riding.
The Ride’s website is well worth checking out (and you can now download issues 1 and 2) but nothing beats the aesthetic and pleasure of the hard copy journal itself. Go on – collect some cultural stuff and come along to the next FNR to make some more!
Friday 14 Jan 2011 (Full Moon 19 Jan) The We Live Here Ride Quick note Ride report still to follow but let’s just note: 45 nightriders max – well done all; some real fun riding around Sheffield, through the inner courtyards of Park Hill Flats; swarming over the tram bridge and even some went around and through Peace Gardens – you were all very naughty! It was a ride to visit buildings and structures, past and present, represented in the work of Jonathan Wilkinson, local artist (www.welivehere.co.uk). Badge Design
Ride details and a map are in the ride notes – see side bar: I just haven’t had the time to translate a word doc with images into a html page on wordpress, with images.
If you want to collect the FNR badges then ‘spares’ will be available at ReCycleBikes – for a price (we would like to cover costs)
Cheer yourself up before the next ride – take a dekko at this
Fraternal/Sororal Rides: There used to be a London FridayNightRide www.fridaynightride.com (where I was inducted into the experience) sadly no more. If any body knows of another FNR like this one – there are other FNRs which cycle to the coast and all that kind of stuff but we are not into distance or endurance or power (I think we are in it for the joy of social urban riding and being a tourist in your own backyard) then I could maybe see if any other FNR wants to do a fraternal/sororal ride sometime in Sheffield and vice-versa.
“FridayNightRiders of the World Unite!”
Mick
“We have nothing to lose but our chains!”
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